In January we began with messages on the Lord’s Prayer. Pastor Marcus Gainey preached from 1 Samuel chapter one on Hannah’s prayer. Often we get busy doing ministry, without first stopping and taking time to pray. As the year begins, I want to emphasize the importance of prayer, and how prayer relates to other aspects of our relationship with God. The well known…
An Evangelical Free Church in Cary, NC
An Evangelical Free Church in Cary, NC
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This past Sunday’s worship service was focused on coming before the Lord. We looked back at 2021, and we also looked ahead to 2022. There are many examples in Scripture of people coming “before the Lord”. Hannah, in First Samuel 1, was pouring out her soul in prayer “before the Lord”, asking for a child.…
The disciples asked Jesus, “Lord, teach us to pray.” (Luke 11:1) What follows is known as the Lord’s prayer (Luke 11:2-4). In many ways this prayer is a model for how we pray to God on a regular basis: begin with adoration, move to confession, then thanksgiving, and finally supplication (or requests). The Lord’s prayer…